The Institute for Contemporary Art has very little street profile, but everybody in Sofia who needs to know about it knows about it.

Leannej and My Name is Scot find quail eggs, barking puppies and homemade wine at a Bulgarian market in this week's installment of "Off Site: Artists' Balkan Expedition."

Leannej and My Name is Scot travel to Borisova Gradina Park, Mount Vitosha and an antiquated amusement park in this first installment of their Balkan artists' expedition.

Leannej and My Name is Scot meet Petko Dourmana, Bulgarian artist and social activist, and visit a beach town on the coast of the Black Sea.

I decided to come to Bulgaria after listening to Scot’s stories about his visit to the town of Plovdiv in 2000.

The Bulgarian Military Press is a mysterious organization that operates a tiny storefront set inside a huge building in downtown Sofia.

The time after an opening is a kind of lost time. For months leading up to the show you spend all your time and energy putting it together and then, suddenly, it’s over.

The Suitcase taverna sits on the edge of central Sofia and the surrounding suburban area.

Our exhibition is getting more and more complicated.

One more week left in Sofia.

The sign outside of Checkpoint Charly restaurant advertises “American Jazz-z-z.”

We went to see The Heartbeat of Russia, a Russian state-sponsored contemporary art exhibition of performance art, needlepoint, illustration, photography and other art forms.

In 1989, a Bulgarian artist, Nedko Solakov, installed a telescope on top of the building that housed the Union of Bulgarian Artists.

The Bulgarian Film Archive houses an amazing collection of communist-era films and ephemera.

On May 24, the Day of Bulgarian Education, Culture and Cyrillic Alphabet, the Bulgarians celebrate the Cyrillic alphabet.

0GMS is an artist collective that has been working in Sofia for the past four years.

A day spent in Veliko Tarnovo with giant monuments, underemployed graduates and old woodworkers.

The monastery at Rila is a two-hour bus ride south of Sofia.

What would it be like if people valued art as much as sports?

We had been warned about choosing the right airport taxi.

Surrounding the city centre are signs of a new era.